The Federal Commissioner for the Armed Forces considers the restriction to men to be out of date. The CDU has therefore confirmed its desire to expand it for the sake of equal rights.
In the debate about compulsory military service, the Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Eva Högl, spoke out in favor of extending it to young women. “It would no longer be appropriate to only focus on young men,” said the SPD politician to the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. “The current debate must be about new concepts and a whole-of-society approach,” emphasized the SPD politician. “The old form of conscription belongs in the history books,” she added. With a new form, gender distinctions should no longer be made. “For our defense, we need men and women equally in the Bundeswehr,” emphasized Högl.
The Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, also called for compulsory military service for women until compulsory military service was introduced. “As the CDU, we advocate contingent conscription in a transitional phase,” Günther told the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. “We answer the question of justice between the sexes by saying that compulsory military service must apply to men and women,” explained the CDU politician. “For us, this is self-evident in times of equality,” he emphasized. “In the long term, compulsory military service must then be placed on a new basis with general compulsory military service,” added Günther.